It’s so easy to get distracted this time of year! But it’s time to get back to the business of making money with our business!
This is the time of year that we all start to loose our bookkeeping momentum and get distracted.
We come in HOT in January when we know that we have to get last years books in order for tax time, cause we didn’t touch a dammed thing as far as bookkeeping was concerned and now we’re in a panic!
We swear up & down that this year is going to be different. We’re going to stay on top of all the paperwork and keep our books in order on a regular basis.
That momentum carries us through February and into March.
But by the time we hit April and last year’s bookkeeping is done – we’ve all had enough and we loose that momentum because the pressure to get our taxes done has sorta worn off.
When the end of April-beginning of May rolls around, we’re totally distracted —- by EVERYTHING and doing out bookkeeping is nothing but a memory!
I’m distracted by SPRING! All the GREEN after a long white winter, all the growth and new life in my garden, and working some hours here and there at the commercial greenhouse down at the bottom of the hill.
I swear I could sit on my deck all day long and just watch things sprout up out of the ground and BLOOM! YES!!!!! This is my favorite time of year!
For you, you could be thinking of things like:
- SUMMER
- making money
- increasing sales
- growing your audience
- taking a family vacation
- making products
- how your going to manage EVERYTHING with kids being out of school
- and so many other things.
You need a boost and to get back to the business of making money with your business!
If you’ve been a reader for any length of time, you know that I’m definitely passionate about helping handmade, creative, and craft business owners learn about the financial side of their business and how to handle various bookkeeping tasks that help you get your tax stuff in order.
But I never talk about the sales, the marketing, the social media stuff that actually helps you make money. That’s just not my thing, and believe me I struggle with all that stuff too.
That’s why I’m so excited to share something that will help you make more money with your handmade business in 2023. The Profit Makers: 2023 Crochet Business Summit (affiliate link) is a free 3-day event that will help you grow the profitable business of your dreams.
You can get all the details about the Profit Makers: 2023 Crochet Business Summit here (affiliate link).
I want to help you connect or reconnect with your bookkeeping and help you to get focused.
Your business runs all year long and so does the bookkeeping.
If your goal is to have a 6-figure handmade business then you need a bookkeeping system that will support it.
Don’t let yourself be distracted with just increasing sales, growing your audience, making products to sell, and all the rest without paying attention to your bookkeeping responsibilities.
A lot of you know what you need to be doing, but you just aren’t doing it.
Are you a motivated business owner who wants step-by-step instructions on how to setup and use a bookkeeping system from the very beginning?
If so, the Handmade Business Bookkeeping Academy is worth checking out. It’s an annual or monthly subscription – choose which one fits your budget. Check it out the Academy membership.
Maybe you didn’t know this. But our brains are trained on focus on the negative. The things we don’t want to do – like our BOOKKEEPING!
Our brains tend to tell us:
- This doesn’t apply to me because…………..
- I don’t know how to ………………..
- OMG, this is just too hard or too complicated
- I know I need to do this BUT ………………………
And we ignore the hard or complicated stuff that we know we should be doing.
You have a choice! You can focus on thoughts that make you feel overwhelmed or you can focus on thoughts that will help you get the results you want.
Take action! Retrain your brain to focus on thoughts that get you results. So you can get the results you come here for.
Learn how to turn those negative thoughts around and start thinking about:
- How could this be helpful to me
- what’s useful to me
- how can this help me
So tell me – have you grabbed one of my free trainings, joined the Academy or are you just a hard core YarnyBookkeeper lurker?